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Mellow hazes, lowly trailing / Over wood and meadow, veiling / Somber skies, with wildfowl sailing / Sailor-like to foreign lands; / And the north-wind overleaping / Summer's brink, and floodlike sweeping / Wrecks of roses where the weeping / Willows wring their helpless hands.
Flared, like Titan torches flinging / Flakes of flame and embers, springing / From the vale the trees stand swinging / In the moaning atmosphere; / While in dead'ning-lands the lowing / Of the cattle, sadder growing, / Fills the sense to overflowing / With the sorrow of the year.